"Heavily financed by the most powerful corporations in the world" they sat 54 floors above...

[madfloridian]

38. FL Dems esp did not care for us. They called DLC the "wind" in their sails. Quote.

started getting into positions of leadership locally, it alarmed the state and local parties. FL was once of the first to become firmly tied to the DLC. This is from the 2000 convention.

Florida Dem Chair at 2000 DNC convention..."The DLC is the wind in our sails"

Making his way through the Florida delegation, for example, he's greeted by the state party chair, the head of the state DLC, and a gruff lawyer from Lakeland named Bob Grizzard. Defiantly wearing a t-shirt from Clinton's 1992 campaign over his checkered oxford shirt, Grizzard tells me he's a "proud member of the DLC." When I ask him about the prominence of liberal speakers on the convention docket, he says, "We're the party of diversity and inclusion," then pauses before adding, "and if they don't want to swallow DLC, we'll stick it to 'em." A minute later, he grabs the shoulders of an African American delegate and pulls him over. "He's not quite with us yet," Grizzard confides to me jokingly, "but we'll give him time." Grizzard's friends are a little embarrassed by the gesture but share his triumphalism nonetheless. "The DLC is the wind in our sails," says Bob Poe, the state party chair.